History has its own life, it is like a person, both easy-going and self-respecting. ——Yu Qiuyu
During the War of Resistance Against Japan, countless innocent people lost their lives, perhaps just ordinary people or fighters who were dedicating their strength to the country. Today we are going to talk about a young martyr who sacrificed his life for the country and the people. His name was Song Zhenzhong, and people gave him an affectionate nickname called Little Radish Head. His parents were both underground workers, so the family was known as "One Door and Three Spirits".
At the end of 1941, Song Zhenzhong, who was only eight months old, was arrested and imprisoned with his mother, because of the hardships of life in prison, he was seriously deficient in nutrition, stunted and small, so his friends in prison called him "little radish head".
In the enemy's prison, he did not have the opportunity to go to school, when there was an underground party member Luo Shiwen who was also arrested, who taught him knowledge, and then Luo Shiwen died, and General Huang Xiansheng volunteered to be his teacher. General Huang Xiansheng was the deputy commander of the 53rd Army of the Northeast Army led by General Zhang Xueliang. He opposed Chiang Kai-shek's civil war and was a patriotic anti-Japanese general. After the "Xi'an Incident", General Huang Xiansheng disregarded his personal safety and went to Wuhan to ask Chiang Kai-shek to release Zhang Xueliang, and was arrested by Kuomintang agents in 1938. In addition to teaching chinese and arithmetic, he also taught him martial arts and Russian. Because of his young age and relative freedom of movement, Song Zhenzhong became a "little traffic officer" who delivered news to his friends in prison, did many jobs that adult revolutionaries could not do, made immortal contributions to overthrowing the reactionaries and establishing a new China, and was the smallest martyr in our country and even in the world. Although he did not know much, he knew the meaning of the word patriotism at a young age.
Such a young and innocent child, who in the end will bear the heartache of the killer? This person is Yang Qindian.
Yang Qindian, born in 1918 in a poor peasant family in Henan, in order to survive as a soldier, also from a poor family, in order to have food to eat he became a soldier, in April 1940 was admitted to the Xi'an Military Academy Seven Branch Teaching Regiment run by Hu Zongnan; in 1942, he was assigned to a cavalry unit in the south of Huzong, became a cavalryman, during which he was selected by Chiang Kai-shek as a guard of the guard regiment.
Soon, Yang Qindian was transferred from Xi'an to Sichuan, and was assigned to the special task force of the traffic police corps as a squad leader, and for a time served as a security guard for Song Ziwen, Kong Xiangxi, and other Kuomintang politicians.
In 1948, Yang Qindian was sent to the Gele Mountain concentration camp as the head of the white mansion guard squad, responsible for guarding the important "prisoners" held in the white mansion. The imprisoned Song Qiyun and Xu Xiaoxuan are all masters who are good at breaking through the enemy's psychological defense line from within. They found that Yang Qindian was born into poverty, and his original intention as a soldier was only to eat a full meal, so they looked for an opportunity to "impress" him.
They explained the situation to him, explained the reasoning, and enlightened Yang Qindian not to fight for Chiang Kai-shek's reactionary government, but to stand on the side of the toiling masses and abandon the dark and turn to the light. After Chen Ran, Wang Pu, Luo Guangbin, Zhou Conghua, and 30 other Communist Party members and cadres of the "Kuomintang Revolutionary Committee" were imprisoned in the White Mansion, they also went all out to educate Yang Qindian. Yang Qindian did respond, and began to deliver messages and exchange letters and newspapers to them within his sphere of competence, and also extended the time for letting go of the wind, trying his best to give convenience.
However, on the eve of the birth of New China, he was ordered to participate in the criminal act of assassinating the patriotic general Yang Hucheng and his family and retinue, when he was ordered to cut the grass and remove the roots, and in the face of this innocent child, who he was usually very familiar with and often teased, he exterminated humanity, stuck the neck of the little radish head with his hands, and joined forces with another agent to kill this young life.
After the "11.27" massacre, at 11:00 p.m. that night, due to the emergency situation in Zha di Dong and the need for reinforcements, the White Mansion only left Yang Qindian and Li Yusheng to guard over 19 people who had no time to kill... At a critical juncture, Yang Qindian opened the prison door and released 19 volunteers, including Luo Guangbin, Ren Kefeng, Mao Xiaochu, and Zheng Yeduan.
On the afternoon of November 30, 1949, the day after the liberation of Chongqing, under the leadership of Luo Guangbin, Yang Qindian registered himself at the Chongqing Municipal Public Security Bureau.
According to the testimony of Luo Guangbin and others, it was confirmed that he had "made up for his mistakes" at the crucial moment, that he would not be held accountable for leniency, and that he was also prepared to arrange for him to work in the Chongqing Municipal Public Security Bureau.
Yang Qindian said that he was homesick, and the government, according to his wishes, gave him a lump sum of money to leave Chongqing safely.
During a decade of turmoil, he was again sentenced to 20 years for historical issues and imprisoned in the No. 1 Detention Center in Sichuan Province. In 1982, the Chongqing Municipal Intermediate People's Court re-examined Ming, revoked the judgment, and did not pursue him, and since then he has returned to his hometown in Henan to work as a farmer.
But when he returned home to find that his wife had died of illness and that his son had lost his job because of him, he felt deeply remorseful and guilty.
Since then, accompanied by his relatives, Yang Qindian has traveled to Chongqing many times to commemorate the martyrs. Although he did not want to mention the unforgettable past of that year, in order for future generations to remember history and learn lessons, he still showed up and told his "black" and "red" life and the deeds of the benevolent people he knew to young students and tourists, and did his part for the society and the people.
Luo Guangbin, who was released by Yang Qindian, was later famous for writing the novel "Red Rock". He wrote in his memoirs: "Without Yang Qindian's confession of merit, all 19 remaining people in the White Mansion would have been killed, and the blood and tears of the party organization in prison would not have been preserved." Therefore, Yang Qindian's final righteous deeds should be said to have objectively played an important role in preserving these historical materials and understanding the truth of the Massacre. Looking back at this history now, if Yang Qindian had not committed the crime, we might not have known anything about these things, and the novel "Red Rock" that inspired generations later would not have come out. However, "if" is only if, so what do you think of Yang Qindian's behavior!